Approximately a month ago, Yue appointed me lead of this project. I do notknow if that appointment has been accepted by all members of the .orgadministration, but the level of explicit and implicit support I have receivedhas convinced me that the majority knows what's going on.

You can get an idea of what we're working on by reading the open issues.Please file feature requests at those issue trackers.

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I am doing the unglamorous-yet-necessary task of writing code to sanitizeinputs on the video entry page. Once that is completed, video entry andcatalog pages can be done, which will flesh out the rather bare-looking demoinstance.

Many, really. Catalog is a Web application written in Ruby, using Rails(version 3.2.1). It connects to CouchDB; in future, it will probably also useLucene or maybe Solr. Guide is a Web application written in Perl, using theMojolicious framework.

We plan to integrate a forum application at some point; we don't care what theforum application is written in, so long as it's not too hard to get differentauthentication/authorization backends working with it.

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I'm looking for people who have experience with all aspects of Web applicationdevelopment. If this sounds like you, feel free to drop by, ask questions,check out the code, and submit some patches. After they've had a review andare accepted, I'll grant you a commit bit to catalog.

Once we get further along our to-do list, I would like everyone to play withthe demo instance and provide feedback (via issues of course) about how thingswork.

WHAT WE ARE NOT DOING------------------------------------------------------------------------------

We are not implementing all current .org features; we are implementing what wethink the .org _should_ be.

We are not yet concerned with having this application be reachable athttp://www.animemusicvideos.org. Obviously that's important, but we are notconcerned with the present state of the .org's server loadout. We believethat this effort will produce a product that is attractive enough to warrantserver reconfiguration where necessary, or perhaps entirely different hosting.

Autocompletion for music and anime. No more unwieldy list entry; just type what you want. If it's messed up, just erase it and re-enter it. If it's not a verified entry, that's fine -- it can be verified later on and checked/adjusted automatically.

This isn't yet available on amv.ninjawedding.org because I need a place to host a Solr installation. That might happen within the next couple of days.

I have a question and I'm not sure if it's been addressed yet or not, but I have one of those .org email addresses that were given out years ago. Will the redesign do away with that? I use it daily and I'd really like to not lose it. D: